Twelve Angry Men (Penguin Classics)
by Reginald Rose
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Author: Reginald RoseIntroduction: David Mamet
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2006-08-29
ISBN: 0143104403
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary: 5 Stars
I teach this play in high school, and students just love it. If you use the book with the movie, they can study the texts and learn a lot about what is the truth and the value of fighting for it and overcoming our laziness. It also explains well the jury system and racism in the 1950s. Overall you teach them a lot about character and a lot about America. The movie is also excellent.
Summary of Twelve Angry Men (Penguin Classics)
The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revivalReginald Rose?s landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed teleplay, and went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic belief in the U.S. legal system. The story?s focal point, known only as Juror Eight, is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal biases. Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture of America, at its best and worst, to form.
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